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apples in the orcliard that I didn't spray are all falling 

 off, and I am feeding them to the hogs," while the 

 other orchard was loaded with perfect red apples, and 

 I believe that I put half of the apples that I found on 

 the ground in this orchard in my coat pocket to eat as 

 I went on my way. All the demonstrators, as well as 

 the neighbors, say that such nice apples never grew in 

 the orchards before, and as a result the demand for 

 spray pumps is so great this fall that we thought it wise 

 to start a young man out with the agency for a well se- 

 lected pump, in order that the people may have the best. 

 To carry out our soil feeding idea, I selected a ie^v 

 men to demonstrate the growing of legumes, and the 

 results that could be obtained by the use of acid phos- 

 phate. I had six men using acid phosphate on different 

 crops, and comparing them with crops grown without 

 fertilizer, and also with those grown with the complete 

 fertilizer; and seventeen men growing some one of the 

 different legumes, such as crimson clover, sweet clover, 

 cow peas, soy beans, alfalfa and peanuts. Alfalfa 

 treated with rock phosphate and ground limestone, 

 sown October second, is now, October 26th, ten inches 

 high, and the stand is perfect. Soy beans yielded as 

 much as 6,020 pounds per acre, as compared with 2,460 

 pounds cow peas. Cow peas have been grown success- 

 fully in this county before, but to our surprise in all 

 the demonstrations the beans gave more than twice the 

 yield of that of peas under similar conditions. The 

 yield of oats grown with acid phosphate was fifty per 

 cent, more than that grown with the complete fertilizer 

 in the same field. Com yields have been increased from 

 twenty-five to one hundred per cent, by the use of acid 

 phosphate and sub-soiling. As the result of these dem- 

 onstrations eight carloads of this fertilizer were used on 

 the fall sown crops. 



As the season for the different kinds of farm Avork 

 came on, I visited all the points where people manifested 

 most interest, and discussed the problems with which 

 they were wrestling at that time. The interest was so 

 great in some places that we were prompted to organize 

 local farmers' clubs, for the purpose of meeting at reg- 

 ular intervals and discussing farm problems. During 

 the year sixty-three of these meetings have been held. 



